Award-winning documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud died yesterday in Ukraine while filming the conflict for a documentary. Brent and his brother Craig, known as the Renaud Brothers, traveled the world to tell exclusive stories of Iraq, Mexico, and Afghanistan. At age 50, Brent Renaud is the first foreign journalist to pass away in Ukraine during this war. As filmmakers, we often forget that our craft is not only about the latest camera, lenses, light, or piece of technology in general. Instead, it’s about capturing untold stories. As a result, working as a news or documentary filmmaker is undoubtedly one of the riskiest careers in our field. We learned that on Sunday, March 13th American award-winning Brent Renaud lost his life while covering the Ukrainian conflict. What happened? On Sunday, Brent Renaud was fatally shot in Irpin, near Kyiv, while driving with a local Ukrainian guide and another American journalist, Juan Arredondo. Both the civilian and Juan Arredondo got hurt, but Mr. Renaud is the only one that passed away. Arredondo says they were going to film refugees in Irpin, the car crossed a bridge and a checkpoint, then “they started shooting at us.” When recording the video below, he did not know his friend Brent did not make it. American journalist who survived shooting attack near Kyiv that killed filmmaker Brent Renaud describes what happened pic.twitter.com/2ZIxhzEShb— BNO News (@BNONews) March 13, 2022 According to the New York Times: Brent was in the region working on a Time Studios project focused on...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 14 March, 2022